October 19 - White Group

Aquastar is the year-round swim program in our community (just like Schenectady Swim Club where we grew up). Julia has done Aquastar from approx. Jan-Jun for the last 2 years (I love swimming because not only is it affordable compared to other sports, but we can easily activate and deactivate with no issues). This year both kids are doing swimming in the fall and (probably) the spring. The exciting thing about fall swimming is...swim meets! The Jan-Jun was good because it got Julia ready for summer league, but there was only 1 meet in February. Well, the first Aquastar meet was this past weekend and Julia, along with the 'dream team' all competed (I didn't sign up Luke because this meet didn't have any 25s). They had a goal: Operation Get Out of Red Group." Aquastar is leveled by red (beginner), white (intermediate), aqua and blue. To qualify for white group, athletes need to have 3 50s in less than 50sec in 3 different strokes. Julia had her free time from a meet in Feb. This meet she was signed up for back and fly. She was nervous to swim 50s, especially the fly. It was her first event and she sprinted the first 25 and then kind of puttered out on the way home, but she did great and made it in 46 secs. Go Jules! Backstroke was next and she made that time easily, welcome to white!! Kennedy and Reese also made it!! Great job girls! Kimya missed it by 0.47sec but she had all best times and was super proud of herself. But the best part of the day? Lucy, Julia's teammate from diving came to cheer her on. We love our swim and dive families!

The next meet is in 2 weeks, both Julia and Luke will be competing!